How can I track which articles make sales?

hey guys.

Gettin pretty into my article marketing now, does anyone know of a program or code I can put on my website to track which article makes a sale?

Thanks in advance!

Owen.

 

You can't.

 

Yes you can. A simple way is to redirect each article to a unique domain using TIDs.

 

Easy. Here's a quick, semi-ghetto way.

The link in your resource box should look something like this: http://www.yourdomain.com/?id=4323243

... then on the yourdomain.com page you'll have some PHP GET code like this:

<?php $track = $_GET["id"]; ?>

PHP:

... and then all of the hoplinks on your page (yourdomain.com) will look like this:

<a href="http://yourname.hop.clickbank.net/?TID=<?php echo $track; ?>">ANCHOR TEXT</a>

PHP:

Use a different ID for each article... i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/?id=34234, http://www.yourdomain.com/?id=asd34234... etc.

Make a spreadsheet (or database) that shows you which article corresponds to which ID (i.e. ID in one column, article title/link in another column).

Every time you make a sale look at the TID, find the TID in the "ID" column of your spreadsheet (or database) and you'll find out which article made the sale.

Done.

You could add some if statements and only echo the TID part of the link if an ID exists in the URL, etc. but I've gotta head out so I don't have the time right now... but the above will work either way.

 

Here's a better version:

First make sure your page file extension is PHP. Then put this at the top of your page...

<?php 
	$id = $_GET["id"];
	
	function trackit(){
		global $id;
		if(isset($id)){
			echo "?TID=$id";
		} else {
			echo "";
		}
	}
?>

PHP:

... and make hop links look like this:

<a href="http://yourname.hop.clickbank.net/<?php trackit(); ?>">ANCHOR TEXT</a>

PHP:

... then make sure all links to your website that you want to track have an ID appended to the end of the path (i.e. ?id=1234, so http://www.yourdomain.com/?id=1234 or http://www.yourdomain.com/landingpage.php?id=1234, etc.).

... this works for tracking sales from articles, keywords in PPC campaigns, etc.

 

Great advice as usual

 

track it and cloack it
the out.php file
use this for outlinks out.php?id=1

<?php
session_start();
$lnk[1]="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/";
$lnk[2]="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/";
$lnk[3]="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/";
$lnk[4]="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/";
$lnk[5]="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.hop.clickbank.net/";

$r="";
if (isset($_SESSION['eza']))
{
$r="?tid=" . "eza" . $_SESSION['eza'];
}
if (is_numeric($_GET['id']))
{
header ('Location: ' . $lnk[$_GET['id']] . $r);
}
exit;
?>

PHP:

use <?php include("trck.php") ?> at the page you want to track and the referall will be stored throughout the entire visit inside a cookie

trck.php

<?php
session_start();
$ref="";
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))
{
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
}
if ($ref=="")
{

}else
{


$arr=(parse_url($ref));

 if (isset($arr['query']))
 {
 $r=$arr['query'];
 $s="";
 parse_str($r,$s);
	if (isset($s['id']))
{
$_SESSION['eza']=$s['id'];

}
 }
 
 }


 ?>

PHP:

 

You can do the above, or you can simply install a statcounter code on your site and you are done.

 

Waxman1000.. the code is way above me so I like the simple solutions. Do you recommend one

 

good tutorial!

 

Thanks Weirdcreativetype and EMO_Ralez.

Really helpful tutorials, much appreciated.